| Resolution Number: | 1979-D079 |
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| Title: | Recommend That Members Reject Discrimination in Private Clubs |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended |
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Resolved, That the 66th General Convention recommend that all members of the Episcopal Church resign from private country clubs which discriminate against Jewish people, Black people, and other ethnic minorities, simply because they are Jewish or Black; or, if they remain in membership, to work actively and diligently to change the by-laws and practices of their clubs.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 1979 (New York: General Convention, 1980), p. C-118. |
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Legislative History
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Social and Urban Affairs |
House of Bishops
On the sixth day, the Bishop of New Hampshire, member of the Committee on Social and Urban Affairs, moved the adoption of Resolution D-79 amended as follows (Discriminatory practices of private country clubs):
Whereas, in so many areas of this country, the private country club is the symbol of acceptance in white middle-class and upper middle-class societies; and
Whereas, a great number of Episcopal congregations have members who are paying members of these country clubs; and
Whereas, so often we begin our social action ministries away from those areas that are most threatening to us; and
Whereas, so often we are relatively ineffective and lack credibility in our social action and evangelical ministries because we have not begun in those areas which are closest to us, both psychologically and geographically; and
Whereas, many of our members need added support from the rest of the body of the Church; therefore be it
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 66th General Convention recommend that all members of the Episcopal Church resign from private country clubs which discriminate against Jewish people, Black people, and other ethnic minorities, simply because they are Jewish or Black; or, if they remain in membership, to work actively and diligently to change the by-laws and practices of their clubs.
The motion was seconded by the Bishop of Olympia.
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #107)
House of Deputies
On the seventh day, HB Message #107 was referred to the Committee on Social and Urban Affairs.
On the tenth day, the Committee on Social and Urban Affairs presented its Report #37 on Resolution D-79, and recommended concurrence.
Deputy Judah (Dallas) moved to table the Resolution.
Motion lost
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #206)
| Abstract: | The 66th General Convention recommends that all Church members resign from private country clubs which discriminate or to work actively to change the by-laws and practices of their clubs. |
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